The homeland of the I Ching The other day I was thinking about the I Ching, synchronicity, and schizophrenia. The wild and crazy science fiction writer, Philip K. Dick, used it to plot Man in the High Castle, and consulted the oracle to the end of his days. It “works” because of synchronicity, which is the connection … More And then, there’s Terence McKenna
Books have been written about the hexagrams and the DNA code The Secret is well hidden. Probably for our own protection. Throughout the centuries, those who sought the Secret through mental, physical, or chemical means were warned of the dangers. Most never reached the mountaintop. There’s a Pink Floyd lyric: “You reached for the secret … More Philip K. Dick: Schizophrenia and the I Ching
Joseph Goebbels Last night I finished watching the third season of Man in the High Castle on Amazon video. The American Nazi youth were celebrating the destruction of the Statue of Liberty to launch the year of the new beginning. This public demonstration followed the meltdown of the Liberty Bell. By destroying the symbols of American … More The Lie is the Apotheosis of Totalitarianism
Charlie LeDuff, extraordinary journalist. Featured here on the cover of his previous book. SH*TSHOW! is a great book. His reporting on the people working at the Mercedes-Benz factory opened my eyes about unions. Why did they vote to keep the UAW out? Why? In May when I wrote about the pending Supreme Court’s Janus decision I made the … More Charlie LeDuff has a Point
the occult moves into the White House … More Dark Star Rising: a review of Gary Lachman’s disturbing recent book (ppe#8)
Dr. Steven Pinker asked the question:”What sense, then, can we make of the suggestion that images, numbers, kinship relations, or logic can be represented in the brain without being couched by words?” (Language Instinct, p. 64) He credits Alan Turing as being the man responsible for making the idea of mental representation, which Pinker calls mentalese, scientifically … More Language and Thought: Are they the same? (part 2) ppe#7
Immanuel Kant, who said space and time are apriori notions, that is, inside our heads Are language and thought one and the same? Can we only know reality through the medium of language? Donald Fagen, one of the geniuses behind Steely Dan, in his autobiography Elegant Hipsters, traces entire subcultures spawned by Count Korzybski’s General Semantics. … More Language and thought: are they the same? ppe#6 (part 1)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau It pains me to write this. This morning my Google news feed included a review of Enlightenment Now from the Jacobin magazine denouncing Steven Pinker as a “false friend of the Enlightenment”; and this, just when I thought I could sit back and watch the march of progress from the comfort of my own home. … More Steven Pinker: Friend or foe of the Enlightenment? ppe log#5 (renamed philosophy, politics, and economics log)
Can a moral choice make a difference? … More Jack Poulson: profile in courage. Philosophy log #4
tribalism makes for parallel universes, perpetuating conflict … More Sentimental Rationality: tribalism offers safety in belief. Philosophy log #3
